XVI, 1066 p., 16 p. pl. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.Defining the Enlightenment -- 2.Interpreting the Enlightenment: The Argument -- 3.Social Context, Cultural Process, Ideas -- pt. I The Radical Challenge -- 2.Nature and Providence: Earthquakes and the Human Condition -- 1.The Great Enlightenment E...

Contents note continued: 3.Philosophy, Religion, and the Social Order -- 4.Anti-philosophie versus Spinoza and Bayle -- 7.Central Europe: Aufklarung Divided -- 1.The Legacy of Leibniz and Wolff -- 2.Berlin and its Royal Academy -- 3.Kant: Searching for the Middle Passage -- 4.Reimarus: Erosion from...

Contents note continued: 12.Catholic Enlightenment: The Papacy's Retreat -- 1.Moderate versus Radical Enlightenment in Italy -- 2.Beccaria and Legal Reform -- 13.Society and the Rise of the Italian Revolutionary Enlightenment -- 1.The R̀eform of Italy' Controversy -- 2.Reforming Austrian Milan -- 3....

Contents note continued: 4.Undemocratic States -- 5.An Inconclusive Legacy -- 17.Europe and the Amerindians -- 1.Aztecs and Incas Reconfigured -- 2.Amerindians: Saved, or to be Saved? -- 3.The Tupac Amaru Rebellion -- 18.Philosophy and Revolt in Ibero-America (1765-1792) -- 1.The Creole-Peninsular R...

Contents note continued: 22.Russia's Greeks, Poles, and Serfs -- 1.Russia's L̀iberation of Greece' (1769-1772) -- 2.Diderot's Clash with Catherine -- 3.Russia's First Radical -- pt. IV Spinoza Controversies in the Later Enlightenment -- 23.Rousseau, Spinoza, and the G̀eneral Will' -- 1.Towards the M...

Contents note continued: 1.Drama and Political Philosophy -- 2.Art as the New R̀eligion' -- pt. V Revolution -- 28.1788-1789: The G̀eneral Revolution' Begins -- 1.Nobility versus the Third Estate -- 2.The Revolution's Second Phase -- 3.Books and Revolution -- 29.The Diffusion -- 1.Publishers, Bookse...

Contents note continued: 2.Liberation Movement in Exile -- 34.The French Revolution: From P̀hilosophy' to Basic Human Rights (1788-1790) -- 1.From the Bastille to the King's Return to Paris (July-October 1789) -- 2.Ideas and the Revolutionary Leadership -- 3.Philosophes against the Revolution -- 35....